Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 15% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 9 August 2086 at 10:38.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2086 after 11 days on 24 August 2086 at 17:25.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1071 of Meeus index or 2024 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 39 minutes and it is 2 hours shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠129.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠157.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 21:28 about 15 days since last perigee on 29 July 2086 at 01:59 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 26 August 2086 at 02:04 in ♓ Pisces.
This apogee Moon is 405 496 km (251 964 mi) away from Earth. It is 88 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 213 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 4 August 2086 at 08:12 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 August 2086 at 19:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 4 August 2086 at 20:25 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.322° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.198° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 August 2086 at 11:08 in ♐ Sagittarius.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 24 August 2086 at 17:25 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov